The History of Auschwitz

"Auschwitz is unique," explains series producer and writer Lawrence Rees. "It
has a physical beginning in May 1940 and physical ending in January 1945, and
is the site of the single largest mass murder in the history of humanity."
Like the series, this website uses Auschwitz as a prism to try and understand
something of the extermination process and of the mentality of the people who
committed the crime. Rational, sane people sat down in various stages and made
key decisions that ended in the killing of over six million women, men and
children.